Hardest part of sword-only is honestly Mission 5, since you don't get any upgrades you have to go fast.

Did a run of Decision as well banning Katana since Sakura and Guren are overpowered, managed to clear (Mile Route of course, VR buttons don't exist):

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Seems the next best weapon after Katana is Gunslash, then I'd probably say TMG and then probably JB.

I tried to solo Decision as well but didn't get too far, only made it to the first room of M5 (all mile buttons as always):

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Must be quite easy if you take all VR, although you don't get any miles if you do that and it's also really boring. I'm pretty sure you get more miles/time if you do Decision full-miles than Start. (though I'm not playing for miles)

Managed a 800+ 4P Start run too:

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900+ requires VR rounding though (pick up a 5% VR capsule at 98% instead of 100% for more VR and overfill), which is really OP because you get an extra 12.5 seconds per VR capsule.

Random 3P Start clear:

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Also been doing 4P Decision Score runs, best so far is 5292 I believe, it actually got 10th place on Shared Ship last week or the week before which was 50SG. :thonking:

After playing both quests though, I actually think Decision is a lot more fun because it's the more difficult of the two and requires you to be very on-point if you don't want a wipe against Arms/Hunar and M5, while still finishing with lots of VR. Very fun quest to play, but nobody plays it because Start is easier for miles for most people. =( B> players

I've cleared it 2P before but it was somewhat close, this was much nicer and not close at all (although M4 and M7 were disasters).

Above is the video of the whole run, it has a strange timestamp for some reason though.

The video above also shows the strategy at Vomos 2 to force him to spit. You just stand in front of him during Phase 2 and he will never use any other attack than the spit fireball, and with a weapon that can parry, it makes it much easier on the rest of the party.